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Google's Larry Page on Why Moon Shots Matter — Larry Page lives by the gospel of 10x. Most companies would be happy to improve a product by 10 percent. Not the CEO and cofounder of Google. The way Page sees it, a 10 percent improvement means that you're basically doing the same thing as everybody else.

Larry Page talks Google's fragile influence on Motorola — This past year Google decidedly purchased Motorola not only for their extensive patent portfolio, but their track record in the mobile industry - and this week Google's CEO Larry Page has given more insight as to what hardware …

Google Nexus 7 tops iPad in Japan: Is this a trend? — Google's Nexus 7 is making serious market-share headway against Apple in Japan, according to Nikkei. — Google's Nexus 7 is gaining market share in Japan and topped Apple's iPad in one survey. — Japanese digital device consumers are some of the savviest in the world.

Still More About The Death Of Aaron Swartz — United States Attorney Carmen Ortiz, who still has political ambitions beyond her current station, and her husband, and some unfortunate media enablers, have finally organized a response to the torrent of criticism she and her office have received …

Lenovo announces ThinkPad Chromebook for schools — Summary: Lenovo will offer a Chromebook version of its ThinkPad X131e for the education sector. The Chromebook will be sold only to schools for grades K-12. — James Kendrick — The folks at Lenovo are going into the Chromebook space …

California Budget Hurt by Facebook's Stock-Price Slump — Facebook Inc.'s disappointing IPO has claimed another victim: California's budget. — Aides to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown last week lowered their estimate of how much revenue the state will get from Facebook's initial public offering …

Apple Looks to Improve Siri's Script — Apple's virtual assistant Siri may have its roots in a Pentagon-funded artificial intelligence research project, but algorithms aren't everything and the Cupertino company is now turning to writers to make Siri smarter.

Microsoft pushes ahead with its own take on WebRTC — Microsoft's Open Technologies unit published a prototype implementation of browser-based video chat today that allows a user of a Mac OS-based Chrome browser to chat with a user running IE 10 on Windows.

AT&T Stalking Europe for Mergers — AT&T Inc. is once again starting up its deal machine. — The telecommunications giant is considering buying a counterpart in Europe, a bet that it can best escape constraints on growth at home by getting into a new wireless market where it can upgrade technology …